Yale Concert Band, Featuring Yale Glee Club: "A New Haven Psalter"

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November 21, 2012|Stephanie Hubbard, Business Manager, Yale Bands, New Haven

Yale Concert Band to present world premiere of: "A New Haven Psalter" by Yale School of Music composer Ingram Marshall, Thomas C. Duffy, music director. Featuring the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, music director And other music by Yale and New Haven Composers Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Woolsey Hall (corner of College & Grove Streets), New Haven Free Admission

Ingram Marshall's A New Haven Psalter is a setting for choir and wind band of psalms by 18th-19th century New Haven composer Daniel Read. This new composition was commissioned specially for the Yale Concert Band and Yale Glee Club.

Cole Porter (YC 1913) wrote his Yale fight songs - Bulldog, Bingo, and Whoop It Up - 100 years ago, in 1912, during his senior year at Yale.

Charles Ives (YC 1898) composed Variations on "Jerusalem the Golden" to recreate the performance practices of his father's Union Army band. This performance, with arrangement by former Yale Band director Keith Brion, will feature a brass quintet made up of Yale School of Music students Jay Villella, Robby Moser, Zachary Quortrup, Kevin Dombrowski, and Chris Brown. The Alcotts is a musical sketch of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott, taken from the third movement from Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass. 1840-60, and is transcribed for band by former Yale Band director Richard Thurston.

George Gershwin wrote the "rhapsodic ballet" An American in Paris after a 1928 visit to Europe. Thomas C. Duffy conceived A Parisian in America as a response, depicting a similarly eventful visit by a Parisian to New York City.